How To Dust Furniture
Move the furniture and appliances and clean underneath them.
How to dust furniture. Say goodbye to dust mites dust mites are microscopic critters that live in your bedding upholstery carpeting. A feather duster or dust rag is fine for cleaning shelves and such but neither one is much good when you need to get into the tiny cracks and crevices of chandeliers wicker furniture or baskets. Avoid using furniture oils on wood furniture it is not needed can attract more dust.
Now that you ve done all this work to clean an entire room don t leave dust bunnies lurking under your furniture. It will create static and pull out dust hair and fur says boston based green cleaning coach leslie reichert. If you like to polish your finished wood you may also want to have a can of furniture polish and another clean rag handy.
In order to remove all of the dust taking shortcuts and dusting around your items won t help. Secondly a dry rag could actually do some major damage on your furniture long term. Internally you re creating dust all the time your skin your hair the dander of your pets and children and houseguests that s.
Dust each piece of furniture one at a time. In addition it takes more time to pick up each item and dust under them than to just remove everything off of the piece of furniture and dust it all in. As i kid it was my job to walk around the house with a can of pledge and a scrap of an old t shirt each week to dust all the shelves.
If you can slide the furniture out of the way and vacuum or sweep underneath it. Lisa torelli sauer editor at the home investment website sensible digs likens dusting with a dry cloth to washing your face with sandpaper dry dusting will scratch the surface of your furniture ruining the finish she says as a general rule only use a dry rag on a finished surface if the surface is. Start by removing everything off of the furniture.